Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  We'd like to ask the Canadian government to condemn the crimes committed by multinationals in territories such as Guatemala, Honduras, and others like Colombia. If you create legislation, it will stop companies from violating human rights as is the case in our country.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  [Technical difficulty—Editor] We must not do that. We can't have mines violating labour laws or human rights, and that have a negative impact on the environment as we have seen may be the case elsewhere as it is in Canada. If there was a balance between the foreign investment and

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I don't know any specific examples, but I know that if we went through this exercise, like the Bolivarian experiment with social controls, environmental controls, and international controls, it would be possible. I don't know any companies that have done so worldwide, but I think

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  We work with the support of the union and with the victims of international corporations, and our work seeks to ensure that there's no child labour. When we talk about slavery conditions, it's because the working conditions of our workers are extremely bad in these companies. The

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  First of all, thank you very much for the invitation. I would have liked to have other associations that deal with violence in Colombia participate as well. In the past 30 years, legislation was developed with the co-operation of Canada, which is called pan-American dialogue, a